Even if you’re not interested in starting a business, I think you’re going to want to make this recipe!!!!!!  When most people have business ideas, they worry that someone else might steal them. When I have business ideas, I worry that people WON’T steal them!!!!!! Having had my own successful handmade gift bag company for 14 […]

The Mexican Brownie

Birthday and gift cards to go with your expertly wrapped gift are available below! Seems like pretty candles are getting harder to find with so many companies switching to boring generic jars to save money.  Anthropologie to the rescue!!!  Anthropologie has an incredible fragrance selection that’s beautifully presented in gorgeous etched glass, hand painted glass, […]

How to Copy this Birthday Cake Gift Wrap & Click to Shop for Great Gift Ideas!

To gather materials and have fun creating your own Peanuts Gang  pumpkins, here’s what you’ll need:  Paperback book images, scissors, mod podge, brushes and pumpkins. Painting the pumpkins is optional.  Your pumpkin patch will still look adorable if you mod podge everything onto all orange pumpkins!  These 3 cute paperbacks by Charles M. Schulz are […]

Crafting the Peanuts Gang: A Step-by-Step Guide to Your Own Pumpkin Patch Masterpieces

Did being trapped inside during the COVID pandemic inspire any craft project ideas for you? While I was trapped, I had an idea for a new kind of pumpkin patch!   Wouldn’t it be fun, I thought, if families could not only select their own pumpkins to carve but what if they could also visit […]

The Birth of the Crafted Pumpkin Patch

Andrea in front of a yarn wall

What makes the yarn category on this blog so unique? These photos show “the worlds first and only wall made of yarn bricks!!!!”  After living in Los Angeles for 25 years, I wasn’t thrilled about winter when I moved back to Pennsylvania. I was hoping for a craft project idea that would keep me indoors and […]

The Tale of the World’s First Yarn Brick Wall